Accounting for grazing dynamics in nitrogen-phytoplankton-zooplankton (NPZ) models
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عنوان ژورنال: Limnology and Oceanography
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0024-3590
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.2.0649